[BRLTTY] KVM, Qemu and BRLTTY

[Jason White]

I have it working now. For others who are interested, using my GRML64 ISO
image:

kvm -cdrom grml64_2008.11.iso -m 512 -boot d -curses -show-cursor
gave the best results. I haven't tested the BRLAPI support, but I plan to do
so. The above command reserves 512mb of RAM, which I can afford to do on a
machine with 4gb installed.

Typing F3 gives an ISOLinux boot prompt, at which point typing "nofb" (without
the quotation marks, of course) boots the GRML image without activating the
Linux framebuffer.

I discovered that I needed to load the kvm kernel module while booting my host
machine, otherwise the guest system would hang during its boot process - just
loading kvm-intel after the host machine was up and running wasn't sufficient.

If you're using an AMD CPU, you need to load the kvm-amd module.

The next step is to add a virtual disk and install an operating system to it,
as is well documented on the Web.

At least with a 2.6.29 kernel under Debian, KVM worked for me.